The History of Human/AI Collaboration in Literature
In late 2020 and through 2021, I was given access to the pre-public beta of a writing tool called Sudowrite, built by James Yu and a small team. It was, at the time, the most capable Transformer-based AI writing assistant in existence. It would later go public and become the standard tool of its kind for novelists. In that pre-public beta, I sat down with the model and we wrote a novel together.